Photo #: NH 65312
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Pinned Down -- Fourth Division Marines are pinned down
by enemy fire as they hit the beach at Iwo Jima on D-Day, February
19. Making their fourth amphibious assault in 13 months, the
veteran fighters are ready to secure the right flank of the initial
beachhead.'" Quoted from the original picture caption released
for publication on 25 February 1945 by Commander in Chief, Pacific.
The landing ship in the background (with its bow and stern numbers
censored) is LSM-206.
Note broached LCM in the center, and swamped jeep and LCVP (also
with identification markings censored) at right.
The original photograph came from the illustrations package for
Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's "History of United States
Naval Operations in World War II", volume XIV: "Victory
in the Pacific". It was provided to Morison by E.J. Long.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections
of the Naval Historical Center.
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